RSE was contracted by WRPS to design build and deliver a turn key remotely operated inspection system for providing a rapid method of finding pits, cracks and thinning of the carbon steel primary tank walls of the Hanford Site Double Shell Tanks.

RSE employed the use of a Commercial Off The Shelf vacuum based crawler and developed a customized deployment for commercially available Electro Magnetic Acoustic Transducer (EMAT) technology. The complete system can be rapidly deployed through a 22.5” riser and can scan wall surfaces at rates from 30-100 ft2 per hour.